Disable Facebook “UP NEXT” popup and next video play

Question

At the last 6-7 seconds of each video, Facebook has a popup in the bottom right corner of the video that will play next.

It's very annoying, since it hides part of the video (especially if there are subtitles), and it takes the attention to that new popup.

I can press cancel, but mostly it will just suggest another video and then another one - where usually I'll arrive to one that can't be canceled, which automatically start a new video.

Is there anyway to disable those? I'm not interested in the next video, and certainly not in a popup that hides the current video in favor of the next one.

Example:

Answer 1

I wrote a user script that does that!

Available on my GitHub, on Greasy Fork and OpenUserJS, under the MIT license.

What it does

• It checks if it's on a video page (URL contains /videos/) and if so:
  • It checks every half a second if the popup appeared, and if so - removes it.
  • It also cancels the next video from playing automatically.

The code snippet

^{It's recommended to use one of the links I mentioned above, linking to a .user.js file, since it will allow your user script manager[1] to update the script when such update is available.}

^{[1] I'm using Tampermonkey and so it was created and tested with it, other user script managers might also work.}

'use strict';

var videoPageIntervalID = 0;
var waitingForPopup = false;
var currLocation = '';

(function() {
    videoPageIntervalID = window.setInterval(onVideoPage, 1000);
})();

function waitForUpNextToDisaply() {
    var selector = $("div:contains('UP NEXT')").eq(-8)
    if(selector.length === 1) {
        // remove the popup and cancel the play next
        selector.remove();
        console.log('popup removed!');
        waitingForPopup = false;
        return;
    }
    else {
        setTimeout(function() {
            // console.log('waiting..');
            waitingForPopup = true;
            if (location.href.indexOf("/videos/") != -1) {
                waitForUpNextToDisaply();
            } else {
                waitingForPopup = false;
            }
        }, 500);
    }
}

function onVideoPage() {
    if (location.href.indexOf("/videos/") != -1 && !waitingForPopup && location.href != currLocation ) {
        console.log('arrived to video page: ', location.href);
        currLocation = location.href;
        waitForUpNextToDisaply();
    }
}

Customizing

If you want to remove the popup but still play the next video automatically, replace the 8 in $("div:contains('UP NEXT')").eq(-8) with 10 - it will remove the whole popup object, not only the visible part and so since it doesn't exist at all, Facebook will play the next video automatically.

Answer 2

After searching the web for few hours, apparently there is no current way to disable that feature.

There are some question threads on Facebook's help community that are a few months old, as like the one in the link and none of them got answered by Facebook yet.

How can I turn off the "up next" video feature?

Answer 3

With the browser extension: uBlock Origin (Chrome version / Firefox version), AdBlock Plus, or a similar content-blocking browser extension that can use AdBlock Plus syntax filter lists, you can add the following custom filter:

||facebook.com/video/*/upnext/$xmlhttprequest

That should block the "up-next" video autoplay and pop-up.